Faulkner's Country Matters: Folklore and Fable in Yoknapatawpha

by Daniel Hoffman

Book Overview

Daniel Hoffman's bold new readings reveal unsuspected dimensions in Faulkner's The Unvanquished, The Hamlet, and Go Down, Moses. He shows how these works, often regarded as disunified collections of short stories and novellas, are coherent and successful experiments in novelistic form.

These last three novels of Faulkner's great period are striated with folklore and structured with myths. They teem with folk motifs of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807124265
• ISBN13: 9780807124260
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.2"